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description: It is perhaps worth noticing as indicative of the source of the tradition that Wolfram distinctly states that his Moor speaks in _French_. Who acts: meeting, Wolfram, Moor. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 38

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It is perhaps worth noticing as indicative of the source of the tradition that Wolfram distinctly states that his Moor speaks in \_French\_.

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**Who acts:** meeting, Wolfram, Moor · **What happens:** be, notice, state, speak · **To what, where:** \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meeting, Wolfram, Moor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:13:38
# text = It is perhaps worth noticing as indicative of the source of the tradition that Wolfram distinctly states that his Moor speaks in _French_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	indicative	indicative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Wolfram	Wolfram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | meeting |  |  |  |  | perhaps, worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund | meeting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as indicative of the source of the tradition | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | present | Wolfram |  |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Wolfram's Moor |  |  | \_ |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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